> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 11:35:31 -0500
> From: Aaron Konstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Memory requirements for RH7.1
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
<snip>
> > The Red Hat installer (7.1) is hard-coded for 32MB period.
> > The newer 2.4 kernel is aggressive in it's swap usage. I generally
> > use twice the RAM as a working figure.
> > I am running the 2.4.2 kernel on a 16MB machine (hand upgraded). I havent
> > tried anything lower. RH5.2 is listed at 8MB.
> >
> Well you need to share the secret of how you did the upgrade. I tried last week
> to upgrade a machine from 6.2 to 7.1 on a 64 MB machine with 96 MB of swap. The
> istaller wanted to install a 162MB swap file. When I refused to do it the
> upgrade crashed at the point it copies info to memory.
I hand installed it w/o the installer. That means you either run
rpm -Fvh on everything except the kernel or you get a list of all
installed rpms and do a -Uvh on them their successors.
Henri
"Certification: A process where you pay people money to get a piece of
paper that proves you know what you know so that you can show this
piece of paper to people that dont even understand what you know."
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